Christopher Collins Christopher Collins (PhD, English, Columbia) is Professor Emeritus of English at New York University. His many books include Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination (Columbia, 2013), Neopoetics: The Evolution of the LiterateImagination (Columbia, 2016), Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996); The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination (Pennsylvania, 1991); and Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia (Penn State, 1991). I chose him as a reader for his interests in cognitive science, evolution, and imagination. Read More Read Less